Steinberger Experiment

The Steinberger Experiment, conducted by physicist Leon M. Lederman and his team, involved experiments at particle accelerators to explore the properties of neutrinos—tiny, elusive particles that interact very weakly with matter. Lederman and his collaborators identified the existence of the muon neutrino, a fundamental particle associated with the muon, an unstable cousin of the electron. This discovery helped deepen our understanding of the weak nuclear force, one of the four fundamental forces in nature, and contributed to the development of the Standard Model of particle physics, which describes how elementary particles interact.